A trans woman at a Gay Pride Parade in São Paulo

A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a male-to-female (MTF) transsexual or transgender person.

Overview[link]

"Transition" refers to the process of adopting a social and personal identity that corresponds to one's own sense of the gendered self, and may or may not include medical intervention (hormone treatment, surgery, etc.), changes in legal documents (name and/or sex indicated on identification, birth certificate, etc.), and personal expression (clothing, accessories, voice, body language).

Terminology[link]

Some trans women who feel that their gender transition is complete prefer to be called simply "women," considering "trans woman" or "male-to-female transsexual" to be terms that should only be used for people who are not fully transitioned. Likewise, many may not want to be seen as a "trans woman" owing to society's tendency to "Other" individuals who do not fit into the sex/gender binary, or have personal reasons beyond that not to wish to identify as transgender post-transition. For this reason, many see it as an important and appropriate distinction to include a space in the term, as in "trans woman", thus using "trans" as merely an adjective describing a particular type of woman; this is in contrast to the usage of "transwoman" as one word, implying a "third gender".^[1]

Sexual orientation[link]

The stereotype of the effeminate boy who grows up to live as a woman has a very long history.^[2] It is a common misconception and stereotype that all transgender and transsexual women are heterosexual (attracted to males). However, research on the sexual orientation of trans women in the past has been dubious at best. Many studies on this issue have suffered from reporting bias, since many transsexuals feel they must give the "correct" answers to such questions to increase their chances of obtaining hormone replacement therapy. Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes and Public Sex, has indicated that this group has a clear awareness of what answers to give to survey questions to be considered eligible for hormone replacement therapy and/or sex reassignment surgery:

"None of the gender scientists seem to realize that they, themselves, are responsible for creating a situation where transsexual people must describe a fixed set of symptoms and recite a history that has been edited in clearly prescribed ways to get a doctor's approval for what should be their inalienable right."^[3]

Libido[link]

In a 2008 study, trans women had a higher incidence of decreased libido (34%) than cisgender females (23%), but the difference was not statistically significant and may have been due to chance.^[4] As in males, female libido is thought to correlate with serum testosterone levels^[5][6][7][8] (with some controversy^[9]) but the 2008 study found no such correlation in trans women^[4].^[10]

Notable trans women[link]

American activist trans women Andrea James and Calpernia Addams

• Marja-Sisko Aalto, Finnish former Evangelic-Lutheran priest
• Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, autobiographer, entrepreneur, activist, fiddle player
• Aderet (singer), Israeli pop singer
• Allenina, Chinese-American model, actress, dancer, and director
• Rebecca Allison, American cardiologist and incoming President of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
• Nadia Almada, Portuguese-British Big Brother UK 2004 winner, transsexual
• Barbra Amesbury, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Enza Anderson, Canadian media personality and political activist
• Anna Anthropy, American video-game designer and critic
• Patricia Araujo, Brazilian actress and model
• Alexis Arquette, American actress, musician, member of the Arquette family of actors
• Nina Arsenault, Canadian writer, actress, columnist and sex-trade worker
• April Ashley, British model
• Estelle Asmodelle, Australian actress, author, dancer, and Australia's first legal transsexual
• Mianne Bagger, Danish-Australian professional golfer
• Jenny Bailey, British politician and mayor
• Christine Beatty (activist), American writer, musician and transgender activist
• Georgina Beyer, the first trans person in New Zealand (and the world) to become a mayor (1995) and a member of Parliament (1999)
• Alexandra Billings, American actress
• Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress
• Kate Bornstein, American activist, author, performance artist and playwright
• Marci Bowers, American gynaecologist and sex-reassignment surgeon
• Wendy Carlos, American composer and electronic musician
• Candis Cayne, American actress and entertainer
• Jamie Clayton, American model and actress
• Roberta Close, Brazilian model
• Coccinelle, French actress, entertainer and transgender activist
• Raewyn Connell, Australian sociologist
• Joanne Conte, American politician and activist
• Lynn Conway, American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist
• Caroline Cossey (a.k.a. Tula), English model
• Jayne County, American rock singer
• Roberta Cowell, First male to female trans person in the UK (1951)
• Katelynn Cusanelli, cast member on MTV's The Real World: Brooklyn, and the first transgender individual to star on the show.
• Molly Cutpurse, English author
• Michelle Duff, Canadian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• Michelle Dumaresq, Canadian downhill mountain bike racer
• Lili Elbe first surgically reassigned person, Denmark (1930)
• Choi Han-bit, South Korean model
• Kim Coco Iwamoto, American politician
• Amanda Lepore, American model and performer.
• Bülent Ersoy, Turkish singer, Ottoman classical music
• Bibiana Fernández, Spanish presenter and actress
• Ina Fried, American journalist and senior writer for CNET Networks
• Chiya Fujino, Japanese fiction author
• Anna Grodzka, Polish politician
• Harisu, South Korean entertainer, actress, and singer
• Ai Haruna, Japanese singer and television personality
• Lauren Harries, British media personality
• Rebecca Heineman, One of the founders of Interplay and long time video game programmer.
• Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek model
• Dana International, Israeli pop singer
• Andrea James, American filmmaker and activist
• Aya Kamikawa, Japanese politician
• Isis King, American designer and finalist on America's Next Top Model
• Victoria Kolakowski, American lawyer and judge
• Christine Jorgensen, first male-to-female trans person in the US (1953)
• Jennifer Leitham, American double-bass musician
• Chen Lili, Chinese singer, model and actress
• Alicia Liu, Taiwanese model and television personality
• Deirdre McCloskey, American economist
• Micheline Montreuil, Canadian lawyer, teacher, writer, radio host, trade unionist and politician
• Jan Morris, British writer
• Parinya Charoenphol, Thai muay thai boxer, actress and model
• Ataru Nakamura, Japanese singer
• Judiel Nieva, Filipino alleged witness of a Marian apparition
• Jessica Orsini, American politician
• Kim Petras, German singer
• Veronique Renard, Dutch author and Free-Tibet activist
• Renée Richards, American tennis player
• Miriam Rivera, reality television, Mexican television personality and model
• Martine Rothblatt, American lawyer, technological theorist, author and entrepreneur
• Joan Roughgarden, American biologist
• Amanda Simpson, Senior Technical Adviser to the United States Department of Commerce
• Bell Nuntita, a Thai freelance singer, entertainer and radio D.J
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson, American fantasy author
• Kayo Satoh, Japanese model and television personality
• D. C. Simpson, American cartoonist (Ozy and Millie)
• Allanah Starr, pornographic actress and party hostess
• Sandy Stone (artist), American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist
• Margaret Stumpp, American executive
• Lea T, Brazilian fashion model
• Audrey Tang, Taiwanese free software programmer
• Manuela Trasobares, Spanish artist, opera singer and politician
• Ayana Tsubaki, Japanese television personality and fashion model
• Kelly van der Veer, Dutch celebrity and singer
• Sophie Wilson, British computer scientist
• Marie-Pier Ysser, French entertainer and academic
• BB Gandanghari, a Filipino actress and commercial model

See also[link]

Transgender portal

• Trans man
• List of transgender-related topics
• List of transgendered people

References[link]

External links[link]

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Janet Mock (born Honolulu, Hawaii) is a writer, a transgender rights advocate, and the former staff editor of People magazine's website.^[1][2] She has degrees from the University of Hawaii and New York University’s graduate school of journalism.^[3] She came out as transgender in 2011 in an article in Marie Claire.^[4] Mock now creates transgender-specific programs and education for the LGBTQ youth center of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which operates Harvey Milk High, a high school for LGBT teens in New York City.^[5]

Although she is not gay, GBM News named her one of the "15 Most Powerful Gay Celebrities Of 2012".^[6] That year she created a Twitter campaign to empower transgender women of color, called #GirlsLikeUs, and gave the Lavender Commencement keynote speech honoring LGBT students at the University of Southern California.^[7] She also served as co-chair, nominee and presenter at the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards.^[8] In November 2012 she received the Sylvia Rivera Activist Award. ^[9]

She has also submitted a video about her experiences as a transgender woman to the "It Gets Better" project, and written about transgender issues for the Huffington Post and xojane.^[10] Mock is now at work on a memoir.^[11][12]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Janet Mock's blog
• Janet Mock's podcast with her boyfriend Aaron Tredwell
• Janet Mock's twitter

Christine Rowland Beatty (born May 1970) served as the Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2008 to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

In January 2008, Beatty resigned amid an emerging political-sex scandal and criminal charges of perjury related to a whistleblower trial for lying under oath about their extramarital affair and that they sought to mislead jurors when they testified that they did not fire Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown. Kilpatrick has already pleaded guilty September 4, 2008, to two felony obstruction of justice charges, and was sentenced to four months in jail on October 28, 2008. She was offered several plea bargains from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy--one for as little as 150 days of prison time—but she has refused.^[1] Beatty was a respondent in a $25,000 settled slander lawsuit initiated by two other police officers.

On December 1, 2008, Beatty agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts, serve 120 days in jail, pay $100,000 in restitution, and be on probation for five years. She was sentenced and began her jail term on January 6, 2009.

Personal life[link]

Beatty, who was born Christine L. Rowland, graduated from Cass Tech High School and was voted its "most-popular student" in 1988 and was a Majorette.^[2] She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Howard University and a master's degree from Wayne State University.^[3]

She married Lou Beatty and they have two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 2006. Beatty recently has suspended her status as a student of Wayne State University Law School as a condition of her probation. [1]

Legal troubles[link]

Slander suit[link]

Beatty was named in a slander lawsuit, along with Kwame Kilpatrick and police chief Ella Bully-Cummings, brought about by two police officers that claimed to have been slandered in the media by the trio.^[4]

The lawsuit stems from a 2004 incident in which the two police officers pulled Beatty over for speeding. Beatty was irate at being stopped and bluntly asked the officers, "Do you know who the fuck I am?" when the officers came to the vehicle.^[4] While stopped, Beatty called Police Chief Bully-Cummings to have the officers called off, which the officers allege they were ordered to do. When reports of the incident started to surface in the media, Beatty, Kilpatrick and Bully-Cummings all claimed that the traffic stop was some type of "set-up" to harass Beatty.^[5]

The parties in the law suit entered into mediation which recommended a settlement of $25,000 which was rejected twice by the Detroit City Council.^[6]

The attorney for the officers said "The mayor has been exposed and I may want more money for my clients now," after it was revealed through text messages that Kilpatrick and Beatty were involved in a sexual relationship that both denied under oath.^[5]

The lawsuit was settled for $25,000 and the attorney for the officers said of the officers,"They don’t want to be embroiled in this whole [text messaging] scandal."^[6]

Text-messaging scandal[link]

Kwame Kilpatrick

In January 2008, The Detroit Free Press examined more than 14,000 text messages exchanged between Beatty and Kilpatrick on their city issued SkyTel pagers between September–October 2002 and April–May 2003. The dates are of importance because they encompass the time periods of the alleged Manoogian Mansion party and the ouster of Gary Brown respectively.^[7]

Beatty and Kilpatrick, both married to other people at the time, did discuss city business. However, many of the series of messages described not a professional relationship but an extramarital sexual relationship between the two, often in graphic detail. The text messages further described their use of city funds to arrange romantic getaways, their fears of being caught by the mayor's police protection unit, and evidence the pair conspired to fire Detroit Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown.^[7]

In an August 2007 trial, Kilpatrick and Beatty both denied that they had a sexual relationship or that they fired Brown while under oath.

Beatty resigned as mayoral chief of staff stating "I believe that it is clear I can no longer effectively carry out the duties of chief of staff."^[2] She did not indicate if she would resign from her position of the Detroit Medical Center board of directors.^[8]

Criminal investigation and charges[link]

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy began an investigation of perjury charges after the Detroit Free Press revealed the existence of text messages which supported allegations that Kilpatrick and Beatty lied under oath about an extramarital affair during a lawsuit brought by Detroit police officers.^[9]

The investigation ended with Beatty being charged with seven felonies consisting of perjury, conspiracy to obstruct justice, misconduct in office and obstruction of justice. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five to fifteen years in prison.^[9]

Conviction, sentencing, and jail time[link]

On December 1, 2008, Beatty admitted lying under oath and was sentenced to 120 days in jail. She will also be on probation for five years and, during that time, will have to reimburse the city of Detroit $100,000, if she is capable of doing so. On January 6, 2009, she began her sentence at the Wayne County Jail.^[10]

On March 16, 2009, Beatty was released from Wayne County Jail having served 69 days of her sentence.^[11]

References[link]